Intro

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Intro RAF software

• OUTLINE
• Real-time data - on aircraft or ground
• acserver web display, Mission Coordinator
• aeros
• internet relay chat
• Post-flight data - netcdf files
• RAF software

April 2011
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Mission Coordinator display on ground
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http//www.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/flight_data/platfo
rm.pl
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Mission Coordinator display web browser on
aircraft
Avoid browsing to sites off the airplane! ?
Satcom is expensive
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PREDICT project, dropsonde pattern
IR satellite image -50C blue-60C green-70C
red
triangle waypoint flight track lightning ATC
boundaries
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Video forward, left right
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internet relay chat aircraft ?? satcom ?? ground
run from web page
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internet relay chat aircraft ?? satcom ??
ground
or download install xchat client Password
connect to GV
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/nick yourName-locationyou need server ident and
password use care with messages because text is
logged
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front of aircraft
Display laptop on network at each station
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Data display on GV or C-130, aerosplot and list
gt 250 variables
demo will be shown at end of presentation
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Data display on the ground, aeros
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using satcom relay to ground, aeros can plot
list gt 20 variables
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aeros - configuration files
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Data files - netcdf

• netcdf self-documenting, multi-variable format.
  Analysis software IDL, MatLab, Origin, ..
• Data files will be available after each flight
  archived by EOL for project investigators
• RAF provides free software for display to
  convert between ASCII and netcdf

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More?http//www.eol.ucar.edu/

• aeros linux, Mac, Windows
• free distribution other RAF software
• http//www.eol.ucar.edu/data/software/downloadcent
  er
• HIAPER Investigators Handbook

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aeros demo
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front of aircraft
Display laptops at each station
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CDP 2D-C wing mounted probes
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photos
right wing
left wing

• uhsas

MTP
RICE
Fast 2D-C
King hot-wire
CDP